Virgins PC GUard ???

[Abarbarian]

Me friend has gone for the Virgin broadband and phone and tv package . It comes with PC Guard , firewall, anti-virus and pop-up blocker . Is it any good ??????????

 

[muckshifter]

err, you want that politely answered.


one word ... Crap!

"Screw it, let's just do it!"

Windows Firewall and Windows Defender do a better job.

PCGuard was known as NetGuard before NTL and Virgin merged. Do I need to remind everybody what a crap load of ****e that was?

 

[Anon_F]

Me friend has gone for the Virgin broadband and phone and tv package . It comes with PC Guard , firewall, anti-virus and pop-up blocker . Is it any good ??????????

I'm with virgin.net/virgin media superdooper broadband & no one offered me PC Guard?
OK it may be crap, but would have been nice to have been offered it & then i could have politely refused it.
Is your 'friend' special/friend of richard.b/a new customer?
They seem to be offering new customers lots of 'special' deals not on offer to current punters, the cunning bar-stewards!

 

[Abarbarian]

Thanks guys . Thought it might be crap .
So whats the best free easy to set up and use firewall to use , little lass is only 16 and a newbie and her mums pc-phobic . An I've never used anything other than McAfee .

 

[V_R]

Its really crap!

 

[PotGuy]

I pay £25 a month for 2mb.

I should be getting 4mb.

They never upgraded me.

I hate them a lot.

I hate their security package.

I hate NTL.

 

[muckshifter]

Thanks guys . Thought it might be crap .
So whats the best free easy to set up and use firewall to use , little lass is only 16 and a newbie and her mums pc-phobic . An I've never used anything other than McAfee .

Search for all threads by mucks in the Security, Spyware & Virus forum ... I'm sure you'll find he repeats himself.

 

[V_R]

So whats the best free easy to set up and use firewall to use , little lass is only 16 and a newbie and her mums pc-phobic . An I've never used anything other than McAfee .

You have pointed many others to my sticky, so i shall do the same for you!

https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2697599.php

 

[Abarbarian]

You have pointed many others to my sticky, so i shall do the same for you!

https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2697599.php

Looks like its goin to be Comodo then . Mind you Kerio-Full by sunbelt can be had for free folowing the Trial Pay offer so that might be worth a look .

 

[V_R]

I use Kerio, cant fault it.

 

[Abarbarian]

Ta .